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‘My father used to spear emus’ (2008)

The experience of Tjalkabotta seeing white people for the first time is told through interviews with author Peter Vallee and readings of diary excerpts. In this way, Tjalkabotta recounts his life as a child before white occupation of his country. ... [read more]

Undercover headquarters (1998)

Ellen ‘Mack’ Mackenzie (Anita Hegh) drives Peter Church (Peter Phelps) back to undercover headquarters after picking him up from the police station. He was 'arrested’ as part of a successful drug sting where he played the buyer. Church is still ... [read more]

Toula wants to dance (1998)

Ari (Alex Dimitriades) dances a males-only traditional Greek dance in the ‘Steki’, admired by the man he has gone there to meet, Sean (Julian Garner) and Sean’s date, Ariadne (Katerina Kotsonis). The whole place is silenced when Johnny (Paul Capsis) ... [read more]

Welcome to Kookaburra Springs (1972)

Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) is welcomed to Kookaburra Springs by pilot Bill (Bobby Limb), publican Mick Cassidy (John Meillon) and Mick’s wife, Sal (Dawn Lake). The Cassidys’ young son, Stevie (Dennis Jordan), is planning to play pranks on the new ... [read more]

Dorothy meets the Tin Man (1976)

Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) and the surfie (Bruce Spence) stop for petrol, where a truculent mechanic (Michael Carman) ignores them — until he gets a look at Dorothy. [read more]

East to West (1999)

A young girl peers out of a car window as her father drives her home. Voice-over narration in this clip is by Anita Beckman. [read more]

Philip Wirth and Earl Dudley (c1925)

A fixed camera positioned on the edge of an outdoor arena captures ringmaster and circus proprietor Philip Wirth rehearsing with his trick pony, Earl Dudley. The pony is led around the arena on a horsedrawn platform as Wirth instructs it ... [read more]

‘Waltzing Matilda’ (1927)

The first recorded version of Waltzing Matilda, recorded in London in 1927, by John Collinson, a British-born Australian tenor. [read more]

‘I’m coming to get you’ (2010)

At the very start of the film a young man (J, played by James Frecheville) is on the couch watching a TV game show while an older woman sits slumped – apparently asleep – beside him. A few seconds later ... [read more]

‘Don’t come back, Tessa’ (1994)

Tessa (Pamela Rabe) is remembering the night, at age 16, that her life changed forever. She closes a window and, at the next moment, her sixteen-year-old self (Simone Pengelly) falls into the room, in the midst of a miscarriage. Later, ... [read more]

Judgement day (2005)

A secret surfing competition has been set up between Anna (Mara Scherzinger) and Joe (Matt Rudduck) to determine which of them gets the coveted seventh spot in the Solar Blue Surf Academy. Joe has chosen The Gallows, a treacherous surfing ... [read more]

What you need to know (1974)

This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974. [read more]

Stand up, be counted (2002)

The activists – now elders – tell us how The Foundation played a role in the push for the 1967 referendum. [read more]

Contraband (1938)

Customs officers try in vain to stop the illegal importation of various contraband goods which come in to the country by sea. ‘Men of the underworld’ – shady drug dealers and crime bosses – are shown under ‘cover of darkness’ ... [read more]

Recording (2007)

Jonathan Welch and the Choir of Hard Knocks have only a few days in the recording studio to record their CD. [read more]

‘You can’t take my photograph’ (1985)

At a bush camp, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) is at first spooked by the quiet arrival of an Aboriginal man in face paint. Mick (Paul Hogan) introduces Neville (David Gulpilil), a 'real city-boy’, and then goes with him to a ... [read more]

‘Sue me, Phil’ (2008)

Dominick Dunne reacts angrily to the declaration of a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case. [read more]

The pit of depression (2004)

West Australian Aboriginal woman Christine Jacobs talks about existing in a pit of depression and how she managed to overcome these desperate feelings and emotions. [read more]

Bush medicine (1982)

Wandjuk Marika is visiting Melbourne from his home in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He shows Geoffrey Blainey some of the plants and leaves that Aboriginals use to keep colds and other ailments at bay. Geoffrey Blainey recalls the ... [read more]

From South Australia to the NT (1943)

This clip captures some of the journey by Australian troops from South Australia to the Northern Territory on the old Ghan railway. It begins at Quorn in South Australia and shows the front of the town hotel; an officer in ... [read more]

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